uTorrent Plus now available to pre-order for $24.95

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Back in July BitTorrent Inc. announced that its very popular free torrent-downloading client uTorrent would be getting a premium version called uTorrent Plus. In return for paying to use uTorrent, users would gain the ability to “find, get and play content anywhere.” It was to be the only software you required to not only download content, but also convert it to play on most popular devices.

Four months later and it looks as though uTorrent Plus is almost ready to launch. BitTorrent has just added the option to pre-order the software, and by doing so announced the price you’ll pay for the all-in-one solution: $24.95 per year.

The actual pre-order offer gets you an additional 6 months of use making it a better deal. In return you get all the functionality of the free version with the addition of a built-in antivirus solution, a HD media player (complete with all the codecs you need), the ability to download content remotely, and conversion tools for multiple formats including for Apple and Android devices.

How good of a deal that sounds depends on just how dependant you are on content downloaded via torrents. Although, if the media player is good enough it could still be useful even if you don’t. The counter argument to that is why does anyone need a paid-for media player when VLC has you covered for free?

uTorrent is thought to have more than 100 million users, so even if a small percentage of them decide to buy uTorrent Plus it could form a significant amount of new income for BitTorrent Inc.